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Ten Foot Tango - Fill 1/?

[(Anonymous)]

It’s just a routine raid – smugglers using an old warehouse to store illegally acquired potions ingredients – and somehow it all goes catastrophically sideways. Tina’s just a rookie, only a year in the field so far, but Graves has nearly tenfold the experience and Aurors Perkins and Linetti aren’t exactly wet behind the ears, so to speak. But all that training amounts to squat when they’re ambushed inside the warehouse by six idiots with wands and nothing to lose. Graves has faced worse odds than this, but the smugglers have them surrounded. Graves can take on two at once, and Tina is more than holding her own, at least until Linetti misfires a hex and hits a crate full of suspicious glass bottles instead of his intended target. Perkins and Linetti hit the floor, but Tina and Graves are too preoccupied with their respective duels to duck in time. A large, dense plume of navy smoke swallows the room, and it’s only sheer luck that Tina manages to dodge an incoming jet of violet light from her opponent. Graves, however, is not so lucky.

All told, it’s a fairly innocuous piece of spellwork, but Graves is distracted and his shield charm flickers at just the right moment for a well-aimed jinx to hit him in the shoulder. He stumbles, grunting at the odd stinging sensation in his arm, and bumps into Tina. He just manages to grab her before she falls to the ground, and together (with some help from Linetti and Perkins) they round up the smugglers as the smoke dissipates from the air.

The aurors are left with cataloguing the numerous illegal items in the warehouse, so it’s no wonder that Graves fails to notice that the pain in his arm disappeared when he grabbed Tina. Or that within the narrow rows of crates and boxes lining the warehouse, he and Tina never seem to stray too far from each other.

It’s really not a problem at all until they get back to the office. And even then Graves decides to help the other three with their paperwork so they all end up sitting in the bullpen, drinking coffee (courtesy of Queenie) and trying to finish before The Blind Pig sounds the bell for last call. Graves signs off on the last of it a little after midnight and dismisses everyone with a half-hearted wave of his hand. Perkins and Linetti are off in flash, no doubt to claim their favorite table at the bar. Tina is a little more deliberate in her departure, not quite the barfly her coworkers are.

“Not joining the others?” Graves asks.

Tina shakes her head. “I should be getting home,” she says.

Graves gives her a sharp, curt nod before returning to the paperwork.

“Good night, Mr. Graves.”

“Good night, Tina.” He doesn’t bother to look up.

Tina’s used to it, doesn’t take any offense, just puts her coat on and makes for the door. She doesn’t get more than a few feet before she feels something quite odd. It’s almost like the feeling one gets while using a portkey, like some invisible hook is tugging her by the bellybutton, but she isn’t being tugged anywhere. Instead it’s as if she’s been tethered to something and simply run out of length. She strains against this impossible force for a bit before she looks behind her. Graves is staring at her, his hand placed curiously over his stomach.

He stands and walks toward her quickly. She instantly feels the tether loosen and takes a tentative step forward.

“Don’t move,” Graves says.

“Mr. Graves?”

He looks at her – scrutinizes her, actually – and after a long moment says, “I think we may have a problem.”

Percival Graves may be calm in the face of adversity, but never has Tina heard him understate a situation so severely.

Re: Ten Foot Tango - Fill 1/?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the OP and ahhhhhhhh omg I love this already. I am so excited to see your continuation, when you get there.

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